Spokoinoi Nochi, Malyshi

Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi! (Russian: Спокойной ночи, малыши!, translated: "Good Night, Little Ones!") is a long-running Russian-language children's television program. Continuously broadcast since 1964 (premiered during the Soviet era), it airs as of 2016^[update] on the Carousel channel.

In the Moscow area it runs weeknights from approximately 8:50 to 9 P.M., completing a 30-minute block that begins at 8:30 pm with local news and then local weather. Occasionally the timing is off by a minute or two, depending on when the series preceding the local newscast ends.

The program's presenters have included Valentina Leontieva (in the 1960s and 1970s), Angelina Vovk and Tatiana Vedeneyeva (in the 1980s). Current presenters (as of 2013^[update]) include Anna Mikhalkova (Nikita Mikhalkov's daughter), Oxana Fedorova, and Dmitry Malikov

The format has remained relatively constant over the decades. The presenter (a recognisable news reader, actor, or public figure) is joined on-set by one or two puppet characters. The most regularly appearing puppets are Khryusha (a piglet - introduced on February 10, 1970), Stepashka (a hare, introduced in 1970), Philya (a dog, introduced in 1968), Karkusha (a crow, introduced in 1982) and Mishutka (a bear, introduced in 2002). The presenter engages the puppets in a short conversation or helps them to perform a quick activity such as cleaning up the puppets' toys, or learning a moral.

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